Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

11.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

28.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

31.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre